Definitions for bromine

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bromine bro·mine

Spelling: [broh-meen, -min]

IPA: /ˈbroʊ min, -mɪn/

Bromine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in bromine (beimnor).

Definitions for bromine

noun

1. an element that is a dark-reddish, fuming, toxic liquid and a member of the halogen family: obtained from natural brines and ocean water, and used chiefly in the manufacture of gasoline antiknock compounds, pharmaceuticals, and dyes. Symbol: Br; atomic weight: 79.909; atomic number: 35; specific gravity: 3.119 at 20°C.

Origin of bromine

1827; French brome bromine (Greek brômos stench) + -ine²

Examples for bromine

bromine is a dark red liquid about three times as heavy as water.

The chief source of bromine is a mineral spring at Kreutznach, in Germany.

These acids readily combine with bromine, iodine, or oxygen.

The United States is independent of foreign sources for bromine.

In order to free the bromine from the presence of any chloride it is shaken up with a solution of bromide of potassium.

bromine water does not precipitate pyrogallols, but causes a precipitate with catechols.

bromine, as already mentioned, is used in the art of photography.

Yet the behaviour of bromine displays some striking differences.

The author was also induced to try the action of bromine in place of chlorine.

He named it bromine (stench) because of its unbearable fumes.